Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Need get up from computer and pour a cup of coffee. 48° with rain this morning. Heading to 51° with rain until afternoon. Got my project complete early yesterday. Then the rains came. Steady since about noon. Looks like close to 2" in gauge. Today may be a good day to get wife to help with cleaning windows inside house.
RS, Lots of Stihl carbs on EBAY for Brushcutters. Less than $20. I can get all kinds of parts for my 031 both used and new including a new air cleaner. I have been able save a few carbs by running Sea Foam threw it.
Eric, good use of slate.
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good Sunday morning all. Eric, I've never seen slate mulch before. You could be starting a new trend.

I bet that expensive JD mower belt was made of Kevlar. Hopefully the extra cost will equate with longer life.

RS, how many hours do you think you got out of the last set of new sprockets? Ya know, you started out as a little kid fiddling with chains on your bicycle, getting greasy... and here we still are...

going to spend the day in the woodshop today, all the mowing and watering is done, I can just play today. Planted five more trees yesterday, have a butterfly bush ready for tomorrow to finish, replacing something that did not make it thru the winter. The more I plant, the more I'd better get that water wagon ready...and I guess time to think about running a line over from the house to the orchard and use up the large supply of 1 inch water hose I have. While I can do it with my subsoiler, am thinking it might be easier renting one of those gas powered edger/trenches like the landscapers use, which digs a 1.5 inch wide 7 inch deep trench. Besides I can lay pipe by myself that way; using a subsoiler from what I've seen requires a second guiding hand, even with the pipe laying attachment on the subsoiler. As much as I'd like to use the tractor, sometimes there's a better tool...

And I surely need to consult with Larro about my ongoing problem of spigot envy. I've got it bad...

 

[daugen]

Wunderground just updated the week's forecast, chance of thunderstorms every afternoon starting Tuesday going through Saturday, 1/4 inch or more each day. I hope some of those come through; getting dusty here, and I'm on constant water patrol. I try to water the grass seed late in the day after the sun has gone down, so it has a chance to stay damp through part of the night. Otherwise it seems to dry out and bake in a few hours. Looks like I'll have to start putting down straw; a layer of topsoil isn't cutting it, too sandy.

 

[wngsprd]

67 heading to 89 again. Maybe rain tomorrow.

Mowed for 3 hours yesterday and feel like I could have planted a garden in my eyes and throat from all the dust that landed there.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, a wet and rainy morning here. 51F heading to only 54F, had to dig out the pants again but it looks like I will be wearing shorts again tomorrow. Looks like a Black Hawks/Lightning final for the Stanley cup. Should be crazy in Chicago and Tampa starting on Wednesday.

 

[murphy1244]

Anyone heard from murph ? ... haven't seen him around lately ...

Still here just don't post here too much anymore. How did your splitter turn out?

 

[KevT]

Good Morning everyone. On my first cup of coffee with it 67 out but headed to 91. Picked up my cart yesterday, so what do you think Eric?



So now I am on a hunt for harnesses. Hoping to get a burn permit today

 

[Thomas]

62F high upper 60's raining.
Finally getting some much needed rain for the next 2 days.
Almost finish splitting stacking wood for up coming winter but I just plan ran out of gas...1 more cord to go.

Not much plan for today,run to store and little puttering NASCAR than kick back.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[rswyan]

65F ... heavy downpour just ended and now have a light drizzle/mist ... had thunderstorms overnight.

We've gone from having a rainfall deficit for the month (and year) to being over an inch above the normal average for the month ... and we are within an inch of being caught up on the yearly deficit (a week ago we were almost 4" short) ... and it looks like we may make up that shortfall in the next couple of days.

Since it's too wet to work outside, I started doing some house cleaning yesterday, so it wouldn't all be sitting there for The Woman to do on her days off. Cleaned the kitchen, got a bunch of vacuuming done and really dug into the laundry room ... pulled out the washer and dryer and vacuumed and mopped the floor underneath, washed the walls and ceiling, cleaned out the dryer duct, etc. Still have some to do in a bit to finish all that up.

Fixed two vintage Proctor-Silex "Juice It" juice extractors yesterday ... add those to the two Chi-com fans I did last week. Same problem on all of them - lube for the motors thickens up over time and the motors won't spin. Squirt a little WD-40 on 'em and work the spindle a bit and they run like new. The Chi-coms probably need to get away from the yak grease or whatever it is they're using for lube.

Last year wife brought home some sort of ground cover someone had given her ... plant was about 2' tall, deep purple/maroon leaves and full of blooms ... dunno what it was. Anyways, it ended up dying not all that long (within a month) after we got it planted. Noticed yesterday that we have probably about a dozen or so little ones coming up around where it had been planted. The leaves start out as green and then start turning color after they are a couple of inches tall. So it looks like we ought to be to transplant/propagate it fairly easily.

Hopefully will be able to get the rest of the 1" PVC water line for the out buildings run inside the house over the next day or two, now that I'll have an extra pair of hands to help. Thankfully, only about 30' of it is above dry-walled ceilings in the basement ... all the rest is suspended ceiling.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive weekend.

 

[rswyan]

RN,RS : As you say, taking pictures as you dissasemble something for the first time is a great idea. Only problem for me is that the camera often gets coated in greese. And then there was the time I took a bale wrapper control box apart, confident of the pics showing where each color wire should go back, only for the SD memory card to crash it's file system when I came to put the box back together again. I still take pics but have gone back to paper and pencil for what I think are the critical parts of the process.

LOL ... yup ... sometimes ya just can't win for loosing.

My biggest problem is forcing myself to slow down enough to pay close attention to how something is put together when I'm taking it apart ...

My wife had a smashing day yesterday. She broke up old pieces of slate and I put them into a mixer for 10 minutes to round them off before screening and rinsing clean. We are filling in the drainage gaps arount the edge of the paving stones. Yes, gravel would be much quicker, however it feels right to make use of what we can from the discarded parts of the old building.

I've begun to pay a lot more attention to what gets put in the trash ... mostly from the perspective of how much we are generating that will wind up in a landfill ... and the legacy that portends for our children. Our refuse hauler does provide a small bin for recycling ... but based on what we generate alone, I'd guess it is probably inadequate for most ...